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Catalogue description Ignace REISS, Elsa REISS: Polish. REISS was a Comintern Agent for a time before being...
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| Reference: | KV 2/1898 |
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| Description: |
Ignace REISS, Elsa REISS: Polish. REISS was a Comintern Agent for a time before being taken on by OGPU, the Soviet Intelligence Service, mainly for industrial espionage against Germany. He was at odds with official policy in the 1920s over the demotion of Trotsky and again in the 1930s over the purges which were then taking place. Having broken with his paymasters, he was murdered by OGPU agents in Switzerland in 1937 |
| Date: | 1933 Jan 01 - 1950 Dec 31 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 734332 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2005 |
| Record opening date: | 07 February 2005 |
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